TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[cardsfansince82]

Is there anything more Hollywood cliche, and less based in reality than the jurisdiction battle? My god. I'm working on a pilot called 'Jurisdiction Battle' if anyone is willing to give me notes. It was called 'This Is My Crime Scene, Dammit' for the first two drafts and I've been thinking about changing it back. Any criticisms are welcome.

I think it would be really cool to have a twist at the end like

[SHOW]

'Fine, you can HAVE this mess to clean up'

[Vidor]

I'm relatively certain that I'm the only person in the world that is watching "The Assets". It was an ABC miniseries about Aldrich Ames. Two episodes ran in January, and about 12 people watched them. They ran two more episodes in June, and I guess about six people watched them so ABC decided that it couldn't run on prime time even in the summer, so they ran two more episodes in the middle of the day last Saturday afternoon and the last two episodes are running this Saturday afternoon.

Thing was, it was a pretty good show. Kind of a "The Americans"-lite, but I liked it. Then again, I like spy stories. The escape of Edward Lee Howard is crazier than anything that ever happened in spy fiction. All of the episodes are still available on ABC's website if anyone's curious.

[JoeMcKim]

Just shot through the entire series of Friday Night Lights on Netflix, such a great show. I got like no sleep one night since I couldn't stop watching and basically stayed up all night watching it all.

[thrill]

Just shot through the entire series of Friday Night Lights on Netflix, such a great show. I got like no sleep one night since I couldn't stop watching and basically stayed up all night watching it all.

Blood shot eyes, no sleep, can't lose.

[Schlich]

I'm watching that 70's show for the first time. Almost through season 2. This is fantastic so far, though i hear it gets bad later on, which is disappointing to hear.

[Vidor]

Pinky and the Brain go blue

http://www.avclub.com/article/pinky-and ... wea-207611

[Jocephus]

[Vidor]

So, as I said upthread, I might be the only person in America that watched "The Assets". They burned off the last two episodes this afternoon, and I watched. The last scene in the show was the two CIA ladies who caught Aldrich Ames meeting the granddaughter of a Russian dude that was executed after Ames betrayed him. In the scene before that, the two CIA ladies interrogate Ames, and the younger, sexier one shows him dossiers of all the KGB assets that he betrayed. And it was all very tragic.

A lot of times, when I watch something that's based on a true story, I go and get a book about it afterwards. So I downloaded "Circle of Treason", which was the book about Ames that the show was based on, and the book is dedicated to Dmitri Polyakov and the other assets that Aldrich Ames exposed. And I saw that, and I couldn't help but thinking that the best way for Dmitri Polyakov to have avoided execution was to never spy for the United States in the first place. It's interesting, how we think everybody from our country is Good and everyone from the other side is Bad--all those Russian dudes who were spying for us were heroes, but our guy, who was spying for them, is evil.

Anyway, the chick who played Rosario Ames was really sexy.

[TimeForGuinness]

Almost done with Season 1 of The Wire (I know, I know)...but it's incredible.

[Jocephus]

Almost done with Season 1 of The Wire (I know, I know)...but it's incredible.

no way, could have sworn you were one of its biggest backers on this board.